Information on two not so familiar Kannada composers

[Meenalochani]

Dear rasikas,

My niece living in Bangalore requested me that she would like to get information about two Kannada composers given below.

1. Helavanakatte Giriyamma: Her ishta deiva was Sri Ranganatha. My niece would like to know whether her songs have been notated and set to
tune in Kannada.
2. Amara Nareyana: He was from Kaiwara Karnataka.He was gifted saint .His compositions are on Narayana,Venkataramana

Lakshman Sir,

You may be able to help me with some information

Thank you very much.

Meenalochani

[rshankar]

When you ask tuned in kannaDA, do you mean the language or the rAga?

[Meenalochani]

Thanks. I think my niece means in the language Kannada being a Kannada composer. I will check with her also.

[arasi]

Makes us think about DRS now!

[varsha]

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/6u7cbi ... E_giriyama

Please see this folder for three songs of hers.
And three photos I snapped at Kommaranahalli Ranganathaswami temple , near my hometown.
She spent her last days near this temple.
I will see if I can locate a song by Harapanahalli bhimakka. She is supposed to have narrated mahabharata in verse as a dialog . My mother and her sisters would sing it on occasions.Hopefully I will catch up with a full recording , done by one of my cousins and stowed in some attic

[sukumar]

AIR Amruthavarshini 100.1 FM aired a series of progrmmes on on Helavanakatte Giriyamma few months ago. Dr Sukanya Prabhakar and team presented the songs. Most probably the songs were set to tune by Dr Sukanya Prabhakar herself. it was very informative.

[Rsachi]

Helavanakatte Giriyamma was a spiritually aware person who helped people. Her legends were serialised some years ago on TV. The songs were the speciality of the serial and sung by the extremely talented young Varijashree. She is a flautist as well.

Kaivara Narayana's compositions are I think in Telugu and tuned by Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, at the request of Sri MS Jayaram, the son of the late educationist M S Ramiah. His compositions must be available as they are also presented in concerts.

[Meenalochani]

Thank you all very much. I appreciate all the useful information received from you on the two composers all and I will be delighted to pass them all to my niece.

Meenalochani